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Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. E P H E S I A N S 5 : 2 1
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. E P H E S I A N S 5 : 2 2
For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the Church, His Body, of which He is the Savior. E P H E S I A N S 5 : 2 3
Now as the Church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. E P H E S I A N S 5 : 2 4
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her E P H E S I A N S 5 : 2 5
to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the Word, E P H E S I A N S 5 : 2 6
and to present her to himself as a radiant Church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. E P H E S I A N S 5 : 2 7
In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. E P H E S I A N S 5 : 2 8
Afuer all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the Church — E P H E S I A N S 5 : 2 9
for we are members of His Body. E P H E S I A N S 5 : 3 0
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will bec ome one fmesh.” E P H E S I A N S 5 : 3 1
This is a profound mystery — but I am talking about Christ and the Church. E P H E S I A N S 5 : 3 2
However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. E P H E S I A N S 5 : 3 3
God redeems relationships, especially marriage marriage.
“ In the Grӕco-Roman world, relationships within the Christian home were bound to have an efgect on the surrounding society.” P E T E R T. O ’ B R I E N
“Paul ties in appropriate behavior with believers’ wise conduct in the world, which involves them in making the most of every opportunity and understanding the Lord’s will in the present.” P E T E R T. O ’ B R I E N
God weaves beautiful complementarity complementarity into His creation.
“A ma n fjnds himself by being a man, and a woman fjnds herself by being a woman. Genuine self-discovery and self-fulfjllment do not come from striving to be somebody else or from imitating the opposite sex.” J O H N S T O T T
God highlights the the Gospel Gospel through marriage.
“In a Christian marriage, those gathered are not an audience, but witnesses. The gathered witnesses are a sign that the church is here to hold the couple accountable to their vows before God.” R U S S E L L M O O R E
“The marriage is not just about the couple but about the Gospel. This means the marriage is the business of the whole church.” R U S S E L L M O O R E
Christ as the bridegroom bridegroom.
“I bathed you with water and washed the blood from you and put ointments on you.” E Z E K I E L 1 6 : 9
“I clothed you with an embroidered dress and put sand als of fjne leather on you. I dressed you in fjne linen and covered you with costly garments.” E Z E K I E L 1 6 : 1 0
“I adorned you with jewelry: I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace around your neck,” E Z E K I E L 1 6 : 1 1
“and I put a ring on your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.” E Z E K I E L 1 6 : 1 2
“So you were adorned with gold and silver; your clothes wer e of fjne linen and costly fabric and embroidered cloth. Your food was honey, olive oil and the fjnest fmour. You became very beautiful and rose to be a queen.” E Z E K I E L 1 6 : 1 3
“And your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, because the splendor I had given you made your beauty perfect,” declares the Sovereign Lord. E Z E K I E L 1 6 : 1 4
…who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are His very own, eager to do what is good. T I T U S 2 : 1 4
He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit… T I T U S 3 : 5
“Christ’s headship over the Church is expressed by His loving it and giving His life for it, as verses 25–27 so clearly show. This will have profound implications for the husband’s behavior as head of his wife.” P E T E R T. O ’ B R I E N
The Church as the bride bride.
“He will give himself for her, in order that she may develop her full potential under God and so become more completely herself.” J O H N S T O T T
Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting: “Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns.” R E V E L AT I O N 1 9 : 6
“Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.” R E V E L AT I O N 1 9 : 7
“Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear.” R E V E L AT I O N 1 9 : 8
“The ‘marriage relationship is transparent to God’s purposes on a larger scale…no other relationship within the family so fully mirrors God’s purposes in the universe’.” J . P. S A M P L E Y
“The meaning of marriage is the display of the covenant-keeping love between Christ and His people. (1) This lifus marriage out of the sordid sitcom images and gives it the magnifjcent meaning God meant it to have.” J O H N P I P E R
“(2) This gives marriage a solid basis in grace, since Christ obtained and sustains His bride by grace alone. This shows that the husband’s headship and the wife’s submission are crucial and cru cifjed.” J O H N P I P E R
God intends marriage to transcend personal personal satisfaction satisfaction.
“Marriage is not a vehicle for self- actualization. If we see it as such, we will be disillusioned and disappointed. Marriage is an embedded picture of the Gospel, a Gospel tract.” R U S S E L L M O O R E
“The Gospel has to be at the center. If we are not ‘for our spouse,’ then even our e fgorts to make marriage better come from a sense of selfishness, for my increased happiness.” J O E L Z O O K
“Then it’s not primarily coming from a desire to magnify the Gospel and what God has done for us.” J O E L Z O O K
[Art of Marriage Clip]
God designed marriage to be a living living portrait portrait on earth to display the splendor splendor of His plan from heaven.
God redeems relationships, especially marriage.
God weaves beautiful complementarity into His creation.
God highlights the Gospel through marriage.
Christ as the bridegroom.
The Church as the bride.
God intends marriage to transcend personal satisfaction.
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